Toy pistol



e. W. EDDY. TOY PISTOL.

(No Model.)

, Patented Sept. 13, 1881 UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE;

GEORGE w. EDDY, on NEW BRITAIN, oonnnorroo'r, ASSIGNOR 'ro CHARLES e. STREET, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

TOY PESTGL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,029Qdated September 13, 1881,

V Application filed April 9, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Beitknown thatI, GEORGEW. EDDY, ofll'ew Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Fire-Arms, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my improvements is to render fire-arms less dangerous byreducing their liability to be fired accidentally.

1o To this end myinvention consists in the combination, in a fire-arm with a barrel and hammer, of a stock having a slideway through it from its upper to its under side in rear of the barrel, and a breech-plate arranged in said constructed and adapted to each other that the breech-plate may he slid into or out of a position between the breech of the barrel and the hammer andimpelled forward in the slide- I way by the hammer to discharge ammunition in the barrel.

The invention also consists in the combination, in a fire-arm, of a barrel, a hammer, a stock having a slideway through it from the 2 5 upper to the under side in rear of the barrel, and provided with a catch, and a breech-plate arranged in said slideway, the said parts being so constructed and adapted to each other that the breech-plate may he slid up into a position 0 between the breech of the barrel and the hammer, and so that when slid outol' such position it may be made to engage with the catch on said stock by a transverse movement.

In the accompan yin gdrawin gs, Figure l is a 5 longitudinal section of a toy pistol embodying my improvements, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same taken just in rear of the barrel and lookiu g toward the stock or handle.

Similar letters of reference designate corre- 0 sponding parts in both figures.

a A" designates the barrel, B the stock and handle, 0 the hammer, and D the trigger, of the fire-arm. They may all be substantially of ordinary form. The hannncr is actuated by a. spring, E, and the trigger is operated so 21* to engage with the hammer by a spring, 1*.

(l designates a brccclrplate arranged in rear 5 war, sai noelranabr ecnplate being so of the barrel and forward of the hammer in a,

slideu'ay extending through the stock from the upper to the under side thereof. It is im- 5e pelled upward by a spring, H, so that its upper end intrudes itself between the breech or rear end of the barrel and the hammer. This spring H is arranged in a chamber, a, below the breech or rear end of the barrel in the stock, 5 5 and acts between the bottom of this chamber, which forms a shoulder, and a lug, b, extending forward from the breech-plate. The upper end of the breech'plate is provided on the side nearest the barrel with a rigidly-aiiixed firing-pin, c. When the hammer is impelled forward it comes in contactwith the breech-plate and impels its upper end forward, thereby effecting the dischargetotlammnnition inthe. harrel..

In moving forward it rocks on a. lag, d, with which it is provided at the lower end below the stock, and which bears on the bottom. of the chamber a. This lug, which is below the stock, may therefore be regarded as a fulcrumpiece. It also, in this example of my invention, constitutes a finger-piece, by means of which the breech-plate may be manipulated. The breech-plate is pulled downward, as indicated by dotted lines in -ig. 1 and as shown in Fig. 2, to expose the recch or rear end of the barrel and facilitate loading. When in this position its lower end extends in front of the portion of the trigger which is grasped to pull the trigger and prevents the latter from being reached so as to release thehannner no cidentnlly.

The breech-plate may be provided with a notch, c, and the chamber a may be provided with a catch, f, with which theijsjaid notch may be engaged by moving the lower'end of the breech-plate slightly transversely. When the breech-plate is released from the catch the spring .ll impcls it upward into its normal position and holds it there. \Vhen the breechplate is pulled down ammunition in the barrel cannot bcdischarged, because the hammer cannot reach it, but can only impel the breechplate when in its normal position toward the ammunition.

The firing-pin mayeonsistof a separate piece 5 riveted to the brecchplate, or may be upset from or stamped up on the breech-plate. In-

deed, the firing-pin may be omitted and the breech-plate may be provided with a hole or opening, through which a firing-pin or elongated nose on the hammer may extend to the ammunition. In the latter case the safety of the fire-arm during loading will be due to the fact that the breech-plate, when drawn down, will prevent access to the trigger. a

What I claim, as my inventiomanddesire to secure by 'Letters Patent, is- .y 1. In a firearm, the combination, with a bar rel and a hammer, of a stock having a slideway through it from its upper to its under side in rear of the barrel, and a breech-plate arranged in said slideway, said stock and breechplate being so constructed and adapted to each other that the breech-plate may be slid in to or out of a position between the breech of the barrel and the hammer and impelled forward I in the slideway by the hammer to discharge ammunitionin the barrel, substantiallyas speci- 2o tied.

2. In a fire-arm, the combination of a barrel, a hammer, a stock having a slideway through it from its upper to its under side in rear of the barrel, and provided with a catch, and a 2 5 breech-plate arranged in said slideway, the said parts being so constructed and adapted to each other that the breech-plate may he slid up into a position between the breech of the barrel and the hammer, and so that when slid out of o such position it may be made to engage with the catch on said stock by a transverse movement, substantially as specified. 

